Manager I, Engineering - Cloud FinOps
Core
Lead a team building a platform that allocates Datadog's cloud costs to products and customers, ensuring reproducible history for Finance month-end close and Product cost-to-serve analysis.
Role type
Senior Engineering Manager (Data Platform/FinOps)
Builds
A platform for cloud cost allocation, versioned metrics with effective dates, and reproducible historical data for Finance and Platform teams.
Domain
Cloud FinOps, Data Engineering, Observability
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis
Required skills
Engineering leadership, data platform management, batch and pipeline systems, versioned publication with backfill, cross-team delivery commitments, domain expertise in metering/usage-based billing/cloud cost/revenue data, operating without a product manager, audit-ready systems (SOX scope)
Preferred skills
Experience with graph datasets, retrieval-grounded systems, AI tooling (Claude Code, Cursor)
Technologies
AI tooling (Claude Code, Cursor)
Responsibilities
Lead and grow a team of engineers building the cost allocation platform; Own the publication contract with Finance for versioned metrics and reproducible history; Own metric contracts with platform teams to shift cost facts; Partner with Revenue Engineering on cost-to-revenue identity joins; Drive continuous improvement in cost coverage and accuracy; Reduce key-person risk and leverage AI tooling to raise team speed.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC leader with cross-team influence
